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In 1972, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrated the 50th anniversary of the opening of King Tut’s tomb. Along the way it invented the blockbuster museum exhibit.
Bob Brier, Senior Research Fellow at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, is recognized as one of the world's foremost Egyptologists. His new book Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World was published by Oxford University press in October 2022.
In 1972, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrated the 50th anniversary of the opening of King Tut’s tomb. Along the way it invented the blockbuster museum exhibit.